First, They Came for the Restrictionists . . .

[peejay 327]

First, They Came for the Restrictionists . . .

November 29, 2010 8:34 A.M.

By Mark Krikorian

The Southern Poverty Law Center has made a thriving business of pretending to identify “hate groups,” seeing vast, malicious conspiracies in pathetic clusters of anti-social losers living in their mothers’ basements. But with the transvestites of the Klan an increasingly improbable stand-in for the SA, the SPLC needed new enemies to keep the cash registers ringing. So, after the collapse of the Bush/Kennedy/McCain amnesty push in 2007, it joined with La Raza and other open-borders groups that wanted to effectively criminalize disagreement with their positions to find new “hate groups” among immigration skeptics, designating the Federation for American Immigration Reform as a “hate group.” Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Jerry Kammer has written at length about this smear campaign.

The SPLC at that time rightly calculated that it would be laughed at, even by the liberal media, if it designated Numbers USA or my own Center for Immigration Studies as “hate groups.” In fact, I felt kind of left out, like someone who hasn’t had the honor of being declared a “Worst Person in the World” by Keith Olbermann. But there was no outcry at the time because FAIR — like all restrictionist groups — isn’t strictly conservative, reflecting the fact that immigration isn’t a right-left issue but an up-down one, as demonstrated by the presence of La Raza allies on the right, people like Grover Norquist, ####### Armey, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

But I guess the jihad against immigration skeptics wasn’t yielding enough revenue for the SPLC, because they have now moved into the same-sex marriage issue. Last week they formally designated — I am not making this up — the Family Research Council and the National Organization for Marriage as “hate groups,” the same as the “United Society of Aryan Skinheads” and the like. The gay-rights groups, which have the same undemocratic, “by any means necessary” approach to policy as the open-borders people, have welcomed this appalling attempt at suppressing dissenting opinions; as one of them said, “There are no ‘two sides’ to the issues about gay and lesbian rights.”

Who will be the next “hate group”? The Catholic Church? The Southern Baptist Convention? The Orthodox Union? Or maybe they’ll go after Second Amendment groups next, or anti-tax groups, or the anti-Islamists. Ordinarily, this would just be a joke, a leftist stunt unworthy of attention. But the SPLC is taken seriously (for a little while longer, at least) by many in the media and is frequently consulted by law enforcement at all levels (many of the ridiculous claims in the DHS reports on “extremists” came from the SPLC). Exposing both the venality and the political agenda of this malignant organization is essential for the health of our democracy.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/253964/first-they-came-restrictionists-mark-krikorian

[luckytxn 2,265]

Pretty much just having a group means that those outside the group sees you as a hater I guess. Ban all groups.

[peejay 327]

The SPLC was once a respected civil rights group. But they have seriously lowered their standards to look for boogie men behind every tree to keep the cash flowing. Like with the boy who cried wolf...only gullible fools and die hard wolf haters are listening and responding.

[Danno 1,228]

These clowns have been so busy running down Aryan Nation types... they missed the Extremist Muslim groups... even this many years after 911 they are still fixated on David Duke with barely a peep about any group which sports a little color.

As times have changed, they are now trying to find new territory.

[peejay 327]

These clowns have been so busy running down Aryan Nation types... they missed the Extremist Muslim groups... even this many years after 911 they are still fixated on David Duke with barely a peep about any group which sports a little color.

As times have changed, they are now trying to find new territory.

They will harp on whatever is sexy to their donors. Islam is another one of their Leftist sacred cows and not likely to be a generator of cash from their cheerleaders no matter what the extremists that happen to be Muslim oriented do. Therefore it is ignored in favor of what is sexy and garners donations from its liberal Left leaning donors. Because, like Willie Sutton, they are going to "Go where the money is...and go there often." They have their little niche carved out of the Left wing political landscape along with the ACLU, MALDEF, LaRaza, etc., etc.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Is it my imagination, or are people married to women from the FSU more "anti-communist" than others who have nearly -0- experience with it but imagine it was somehow eutopia?

[Danno 1,228]

I guess when you see how a "planned economy" was.... it's sobering..... and quite different from what some on the Left made it out to be.

[peejay 327]

Is it my imagination, or are people married to women from the FSU more "anti-communist" than others who have nearly -0- experience with it but imagine it was somehow eutopia?

The American Left has taken on an entirely different form than Leftist Soviet Communist/Socialism.

Most of the American Left lives in Namby Pamby Land and doesn't possess the balls or intestinal fortitude to do what Soviet communism and its offshoots in other satellite countries did.

The American Left is basically liberals. Enough said!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

SPLC, ACORN, the ACLU....yes, these are all clandestine communist organizations trying to bring Soviet-style communism to America. Run for the hills!

[The_Dude 1,142]

The American Left is basically liberals. Enough said!

If you don't think that there are hate groups within the anti-gay marriage movement, then you are simply delusional.

ETA: Peejay, can I use that quote in my sig?

Edited December 1, 2010 by Rob & Mel

[peejay 327]

SPLC, ACORN, the ACLU....yes, these are all clandestine communist organizations trying to bring Soviet-style communism to America. Run for the hills!

That's news to me. What is the source of your allegations?

[peejay 327]

ETA: Peejay, can I use that quote in my sig?

It's a public forum and therefore in the public domain. It's not copywrited material.

[The_Dude 1,142]

It's a public forum and therefore in the public domain. It's not copywrited material.

Aparently, you need permission or I could get a 7 day suspension. Or is that your goal.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

That's news to me. What is the source of your allegations?

The RWN echo chamber.

[peejay 327]

Aparently, you need permission or I could get a 7 day suspension. Or is that your goal.

There is a lot of opinion I see on this forum that I do not agree with. But unlike some people I see here that don't want opposing views or even facts presented that undermine their position on issues, I'm all about free speech and free exchange of information. Bring it on. I've never formally complained about a member nor have I ever tried to get anyone suspended or banned. And in the past I have taken some pretty low hits without whining or running for help. If you can't take the heat...get out of the kitchen or don't go there in the first place. I can dish it out just as heavy as I can have it thrown at me.